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Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe
Syosset, New York
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Using just 16 words--and only a few seconds--LeBron James announced that he would play next "sezon" for the Miami Heat.
He said, "This fall, I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat."
On Jan. 28, 2003, President Bush used the famous "16 words" in his State of the Union address. He said, "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
16- word response:
"George Bush has left us less safe and less
secure than we were four years ago."
Rep. Richard A. Gephardt
July 24, 2003
16 words of "eytse" (advice)
"If you name your daughter 'Holly,' you can tell your grandparents
that she's named
after challah."
"1,002 Great Things About Being
Jewish" by Birnbach, Hodgman, &
Stone
16-word "kompliment" (compliment)
"What Aaron Lansky has accomplished with
the National Yiddish Book Center is nothing
short of miraculous."
Nicholas A. Basbanes
16 Words about "fusbol" (soccer):
Strikers: Center & Score!
Midfielders: Move it up!
Defenders: Take it to the side!
Goalie: Grab it!
Source: Authentic Organizations
by C V Harquail
16 Yiddish words used by Will Shortz in his New York Times crossword puzzles:
gelt, schlep, tov (as part of the phrase
"Mazel tov"), oys (plural of the exclamation),
golem, kibitz, mensch, schtick, ganef, tsuris,
kvetch, schlock, schmaltz, kvell, schlemiel,
and schnoz
Source: "Are Yentas, Kibitzers, &
Tummlers Weapons of Mass Instruction?
Yiddish Trivia" by Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe
16 word Yiddish proverb:
"Dort vu men hot dich lib, gai vainik; vu men hot dich feint, gai gor nit." (Where people love you, go rarely; where you are hated, go not at all.)
16 Yiddish words found in "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" by Michael Chabon;
freylekhs, ganef, kaynahora, kibitzer, latke, macher, shammes, shaydl, sheygets, sholem, shtarkher, shtetl, shvitz, tzaddik, tzimmes, and yahrzeit
16 descriptions of Gertrude Berg
1. "The First Lady of Television"
2 The Inimitable Molly Goldberg
3. "exactly right for television"
Gilbert Seldes
4. "The Great Gertrude"
5. The lady who told her cast, "On your
toes, darlings"
6. The lady who addressd her "customer"
at the beginning of each broadcast of
"The Goldbergs"
7. The Lower East Side Jewish housewife
8. The surrogate mother to millions
9. The Oprah of her time
Hilda Kassell
10. Mrs. Jacoby
11. Mrs. Levi, a matchmaker
12. From Tillie to Molly
13 A stereotypical plump, homely Jewish
mother
14. A "soft matronly, kindly type of woman
who is good-looking enough to be
representative of the more attractive
type of Jewish woman"
Hilda Kassell
15. The woman who said, "So who's to
know?"
16. Before there was Lucille Ball, there was
Gertrude Berg
16 Yiddish "f" words feh!, farbissener, farmatert, farblondzet, freylech, frassk, fargesn, fekockteh, farputst, farkrimt, farshlpung, fartekh, fraynd, fus, fonfen, and feklempt
16 words about sex education
"I could not conceive of any stork dragging
eight kids up six flights of tenement stairs."
Sam Levenson, "In One Era & Out the
Other"
16 word philosophy
"Don't ever save anything for a special
occasion. Every day you're alive is a special
occasion."
by Ann Wells
16 SWEET Yiddish Words/Expressions
1. "honik" (honey)
2. "tsuker" (sugar)
3. "a zisn yor" (a sweet year)
4. "neshomeleh" (sweet soul)
5. "geleebteh/gelibeter" (sweetheart)
6. "ziseh neshomeh" (sweet soul)
7. "ziskayt" (sweetness)
8. "tsukernye" (candy store)
9. "bobbegum" (sweet candy one's mother
gives to her grandchildren that she
never gave to her own children)
Yid-English, "The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Learning Yiddish," by
Rabbi Benjamin Blech
10. "Es iz tsu zees" (It is too sweet)
11. "Tsukerl is zis ober shnaps iz shneler."
(Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.)
by Ogden Nash
12. "Di liebe iz zees ober siz beser mit a
shtikel broit."
(Love is sweet but it's tastier with a
piece of bread)
Shalom Aleichem
13. "Ven der harts iz biter, helft nit keyn
tsuker'
(When the heart is bitter, sugar doesn't
help.)
14. "Der vos hot nit farzukht biters, veyst
nit vos zis iz"
(He who has not tasted the bitter does
not know what is sweet.)
15. "Mit honik ken men khapn mer flign vi
mit esik."
(You can catch more flies with honey
than with vinegar.)
16. "tsimmes" (sweet carrot compote)
16 Words from "Fiddler on the Roof"
[Golde says to Tzeitel when she
complains that Lazar, the butcher, has
no hair]
"A poor girl without a dowry can't be so
particular. You want hair, marry a
monkey."
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